Looks like Colbert DHR got themselves into a huge mess!

Why would we be following "this stuff". It isn't in "the news" or any of "our business". Given this is your first post here I'm going to assume this is your website.

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Given this is your first post here I'm going to assume this is your website.

I agree with you.

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Not quite. If it was my site, I would gladly say it was. I would love to take credit for standing up but I'd prefer to just be a viewing party. But it has been all over the internet and was posted on a popular group on Facebook. That is where I got the link from. And I've actually been on the site for awhile, just as a guest. Since all of the conversation on here has been about the fiasco down in Cherokee, there really hasn't been any need in making an account and posting anything.

And to why someone would be following this stuff, maybe to get a glimpse into what is going on with an agency that most people around here have been involved with, not just saying the whole kid thing but the agency does alot of stuff.

Plus, it beats the hell outta reading about the latest junk down in Cherokee LOL

I listened to The Attack. What a yellowbellied chicken**** wife beating and child beating piece of crap. I'm sure there's a lot of REAL men in Colbert County that would like to feed this loser some of his own body parts for dinner. Lady, I commend you, whoever you are. Let the world know.

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Originally posted by SarahP_RN:

Plus, it beats the hell outta reading about the latest junk down in Cherokee LOL

Agreed.

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Originally posted by AtticFeline:
I listened to The Attack.

I would like to listen to it. Do you have a link?

The link is at the top of the page.

I would not like to listen...turns my stomach just thinking about it.

God bless this woman and her children. I pray they are safe and well. I certainly don't know the specifics of this case or the other side of the story, but I think she is to be commended for refusing to be a victim and speaking out. That's a step in the right direction.

Ok, I am not defending this man's actions, but from just the audio you really can't tell if he has physically abused anyone. While screaming and cursing are terrible for a child to hear it is not abuse. He was cursing in general not directly at the kids. The child crying appeared to be wanting a marker back from what I could understand,perhaps he was marking up the walls and the man took the marker from him. I didn't hear him say anything about the boy going to church, the woman brought that issue up.

The mother could have tried to diffuse the situation by not arguing back with him, and she could have taken the children to a bedroom and played a quite game with them until this man calmed down.

Before you all jump at me, I am not placing blame on the mother. I do understand DHR's reasons for removing the kids from the home, it is a potentially dangerous place for them to be since they have no idea whether or not the man might come back.
I'm sure there are issues we are not privy to and this mother may be doing herself more harm than good by splattering her cause on the internet.I have dealt with DHR before and found it best to shut up and cooperate. What the mom should do is calmly go to DHR and tell them she's willing to fully cooperate, just tell her what she needs to do to get her kids back.

i tried the link and apparently the content had been taken down and replaced with questions for DHR at this point, this thread is "dead"

DHR did not have to come to my house to help raise my 3 children. The fact that DHR was involved at all is what most people would call a clue.

Meh.

i personally know of situations where children should have been removed, but DHR refused to act.

i personally know of situations where DHR acted and removed children, and they shouldn't have even been involved.

DHR is made of of people. people make mistakes.

for example, a parent clickin a camera on his 2 year old covered in bubbles in the bathtub because it was sweet and cute and funny and being charged with child porn when they went to pick up the pictures.

that's a mistake - made from over eager idiots trying to do the right thing, and missing.

dhr isn;t an evil institution who are juts sitting around all day trying to come up with ways to take your kids. they are a group of people trying to do the best thay care with often horrible situations, and, sadly, because they are just regular people, some of them are idiots.

juts like some cops are idiots, some soldiers are idiots and some people who work at wal mart are idiots.
and some people who hang out on the TD forums are idiots.

there are stupid people all over the place, but you can't demonize a whole agency just because a few stupid people do what they do and ended up making a stupid choice.

I agree with thenagel. My brother and sister-in-law had their children removed by DHR way back in the 80's. It was the best thing that could have happened. My brother was sexually molesting my older niece and my sister-in-law stayed drunk too much to even care what was happening. They gave my SIL the opportunity to get her life straight but she never did. My niece ended up being in the foster system until she aged out. It was a sad situation but compared to what happened with her real parents, DHR made the best decision.

Then I've seen a case recently involving a family in this area that I knew of. The whole ordeal was in the papers and on the news, but I'm not gonna mention names. Anyways, drugs and weapons were involved, both parents arrested and the mom was charged was child endangerment and some drug charges. She was found guilty and was put on probation. The dad is awaiting the grand jury. Anyways, DHR placed the kids back into the same home with both parents, even after the mom was convicted and the dad faces more serious charges. The total time the kids were out of that home was 2 weeks.

What disturbs me is before the site went down and all, when I read everything that was posted, the mother seemed like she wasn't trying to hide anything. I read on there that she was wanting answers as to why the kids were removed from her and that if there was a reason, to let her know so she could correct the situation. I think that she was telling all that she knew at the present moment.

I am raising one child and DHR is not involved. But that could all change with a phone call. People are investigated all the time on false allegations through DHR. All you have to do is just call in and say that you think someone is being neglected or abused and they are at your door.

I dunno. I just get a weird feeling about that situation that was on that site. Most people wouldn't talk about this stuff in public. If it was me, I would be so ashamed that I wouldn't even want my friends or family to know. Something had to go wrong with DHR for a mother to take this type of action. I could be wrong but it just doesn't feel right.

Glad you aren't gonna mention names. You could get your license revoked, assuming you are a RN.

Ed, isn't Shoalanda interested in this?

I don't know if anybody has contacted them. Sounds like a good subject. Anybody out there know the woman? Tell her to email Shoalanda.